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Writing Tips from Shakespeare – Lancaster University’s Language Detectives
Jules Horne, a playwright and attendee of the Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics and other Digital Methods reflects on her visit, and discusses the importance of the Encyclopaedia and Shakespeare’s Language project… Ever wondered about Shakespeare as a writer? What … Continue reading
Music in Shakespeare
Graduate intern, Luke Wilding, discusses his work researching music in the works of Shakespeare. I came to work on The Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare’s Language through a graduate internship scheme run by Lancaster University. I finished my undergraduate degree in English … Continue reading
Constructing the comparative corpus
Constructing a corpus of other Early Modern English plays for comparison with those by William Shakespeare. – Dr Jane Demmen Although Shakespeare’s plays have a uniquely high profile in English literature and language, he was in fact one of a … Continue reading
My winning proposal: putting Shakespeare together
Principal Investigator, Jonathan Culpeper, was interviewed about the Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare’s Language by ResearchResearch.com… “In December 2015, Jonathan Culpeper, a professor of English language and linguistics at Lancaster University, learned that he had been successful in obtaining a grant of … Continue reading
Technology, Shakespeare, Linguistics…
Bernard Murphy offers an overview of some of the work being undertaken by Research Associate, Sean Murphy, on the project… “My brother Sean is working on post-doctoral research in linguistics, especially the use of language in Shakespeare’s plays. Which may … Continue reading